As sustainability measures becomes increasingly important in new construction, architects around the world are turning towards mass timber—even for larger scale projects. A design workshop at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology is dedicated to exploring the design and engineering potential of wood-based technologies and recently unveiled one such example project that can even be turned into an energy producer. Dubbed the Longhouse, the mass timber-building prototype is modeled after the traditional...
from Inhabitat - Green Design, Innovation, Architecture, Green Building https://inhabitat.com/mit-develops-a-sustainable-mass-timber-building-prototype-modeled-after-the-longhouse
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